However, Kas were created by nature and possessed pure powers that would not leave a toll on a cultivator's body, unlike techniques.
Just like that, if a cultivator with a physique uses Kas of the same path that belonged to the physique, then the strength of the Kas would be boosted. Just like Hyun Hae, she had a water-type physique and was using the water path Kas, which benefited her and increased her and the Kas techniques. However, if she used wind path Ka, then the strength of the Ka would be normal and might even be suppressed.
As for where she got those water-path Kas from, they were given to her by the clan. A clan would nurture cultivators with the highest talent in their clan to increase the strength and future prospects of the clan. Because a cultivator with the highest talent was guaranteed to become stronger if nurtured well.
This was also the case with the spirits. A spirit created by the techniques would benefit from using techniques and not the Kas.
Such as, if a fire path spirit uses fire path techniques, then the power of the techniques would grow. And the techniques also did not affect the spirits because spirits were created by the techniques. As for the natural spirits, even Yang Zhai did not see any.
Hyun Hae went closer to the girl and looked at her. The girl's clothes were worn out, and she was covered in blood. She was extremely injured by Hyun Hae.
"Do you like it? Can you stand up?" Hyun Hae said to the girl and stabbed the water sword in the girl's left leg.
AHAAAAAAA!
The girl screamed because of the pain and was panting heavily.
"Do you want this sword?" Hyun said and controlled the water sword to turn into normal water. However, the water did not fall down on the ground, but it began to enter her opponent's body from the wound on the leg that was caused by Hyun's sword earlier.
After the water disappeared, Hyun controlled the water that was inside the girl's body to take the shape of the water sword again.
ARGH! AAAAAAAAAA!!!
The water took the shape of a sword inside the girl's body, ruining her body organs by piercing them when it took the shape of a sword. Not just that, she ordered the sword to appear outside of the girl's body.
When Hyun did that, her opponent's front part of her body from the chest to her stomach was pierced, and she died. Hyun was the first to kill her opponent. After dealing with her opponent, she looked around.
"There he is," after saying this, she ran in a certain direction.
Meanwhile,
Yang Zhai grabbed the fist of his opponent. After this, he kicked heavily in his opponent's stomach and threw him away. Yang Zhai stood up from the ground and prepared for the battle again.
How did his strength suddenly increase? He could not even break my defense before, but now, he managed to break my defense and also injure me: Yang Zhai's opponent thought after being kicked back by Yang Zhai. Two lines of blood had appeared from the corners of his mouth, it was visible that he had suffered some internal injury when Yang Zhai kicked him in his stomach.
Yang Zhai's strength had increased not because of some technique or Ka, but because of the orange line that contained Moon bull's ability.
The sun had set, and the moon had already appeared in the sky, moonlight also shone on this world. And as the moon had already appeared in the sky and the moonlight touched Yang Zhai's body, he could activate the Moon bull's ability because of which he gained extra strength of one bull. And combining with his previous strength, he could now rival his opponent.
"Don't think that you can defeat me just because you managed to injure me once." Yang Zhai's opponent said and attacked Yang Zhai again.
Yang Zhai dodged his opponent's first attack and lowered his body a little bit before punching his opponent in the stomach again in the same place that he had kicked him before.
His opponent was pushed back by the punch before he managed to balance himself and ran toward Yang Zhai again.
"Don't get cocky, you can never beat me." His opponent shouted and attacked Yang Zhai with anger on his face.
Both Yang Zhai and his opponent began to exchange punches again. However, this time, it was Yang Zhai's opponent who was being pushed back.
It was worth noticing that Yang Zhai was not fighting his opponent with all of his strength. He did not use any of his techniques. He was purely fighting his opponent with the strength of his body and nothing else, except that he was now using the skill of the Moon bull. If he had fought with his full strength, then he could have won even without the Moon bull's ability. But his opponent was a body cultivator to begin with and was using his full strength.
Yang Zhai jumped and kicked his opponent's waist and sent him flying a few meters back.
"Brother Yang, should I help you?" A girl's voice came from behind.
Yang Zhai knew whose voice it was and said without looking back,
"No, I can deal with it." Yang Zhai wanted to test his new ability thoroughly; thus, he did not want Hyun Hae to interfere and there was no danger to his life.
"Ok, but why is it taking you so long? I thought you would have finished before me." Hyun said.
Yang Zhai did not reply and dashed toward his opponent again. The fight started again, and both Yang Zhai and his opponent began to unleash powerful punches and kicks at each other. They were also good at martial arts and were also fighting in a complicated manner. However, Yang Zhai had more experience in battle, so he would always gain an advantage over his opponent.
WOW!!
"Brother, you have already reached rank 2? How can someone reach rank 2 in only a month?" Hyun was not shocked by Yang Zhai, but was amazed. She could not believe that someone could reach rank 2 only in a month; however, she seems to have forgotten that she had also already reached rank 2 and had done this even before Yang Zhai.
And she was amazed not because Yang Zhai reached rank 2 this quickly with his lower talent, but simply because nobody could reach rank 2 this quickly— of course, she seems to have forgotten about herself— she never even once thought of Yang Zhai's talent or Yang Zhai's talent did not even come to her mind.
Even though she was young, she had an innate talent for battle, it could be seen from her earlier battle. She could tell that the strength that Yang Zhai was displaying did not belong to rank 1. And how did she know that he was rank 2? She knew it because Yang Zhai's opponent would use rank 2 Kas from time to time to harden his defense and increase attacking power. And as Yang Zhai was still able to counterattack as well as defend himself, then he must also be at Rank 2.
And she knew that Yang Zhai was not using some kind of Ka to help him because using a higher rank Ka required a lot of essence water, but Yang Zhai had been fighting for so long. And nobody could use a higher rank Ka for this long with low-level essence water, and she also did not sense any Ka aura coming from Yang Zhai.
"I expected nothing less from brother Yang." Hyun smiled and said whilst looking at Yang Zhai's fight. She was not lying nor was she flattering Yang Zhai. She said everything exactly as what came to her mind.
However, Yang Zhai ignored her and focused on his opponent.
…..
At the same time,
Feng Qi was covered in black needles and was defending against the coming wind blades. The needles that covered him was his defensive treasure, known as the Needle-Edge Porcupine. It was only a name because it was made of a Porcupine-type beast and was not a living treasure. He had a metal mace in his hand and was dismissing the wind blades.
Both Feng Qi and his opponent were keeping a distance from each other and were attacking each other with long-range attacks. But, Feng Qi still tried to close the distance between himself and his opposition. It was because Feng Qi noticed that his opponent did not have any defensive methods, nor did he have any defensive Ka or treasure. He was only using his attacks to defend against Feng Qi's attacks.
However, his opponent was clever and did not allow Feng Qi to get closer. Even the Ma clan's shadow path cultivator could not get close to Feng Qi's opponent.
It was because Feng Qi's opponent had some kind of sensing method and could sense the shadow path cultivator. Not just that, but his speed was also fast. This was the reason Feng Qi was forced to use even his defensive treasure and also the metal mace that he had created with the help of a Ka, against his opponent.
Feng Qi moved his hand forward and a metal spear appeared in his hand. Then it was released and moved toward Feng Qi's opponent with fast speed. But his opponent easily dodged the attack and shot a wind spear in return.
However, this wind spear was even faster than the metal spear shot by Feng Qi. He could not dodge in time and used his mace to counter the wind spear.
Both the wind spear and the metal mace collided. A wind blasted because of the collision and spread like waves in the surroundings. Feng Qi was being pushed back. He moved his feet on the ground to firm his position so that he would not be pushed back and put even more strength in the mace to change the direction of the spear.
However, another wind spear came at Feng Qi from behind the first wind spear and shot at his heart, but the wind spear was stopped by Feng Qi's defensive treasure. However, the wind spear had managed to pierce the armor and stopped before it could reach the heart. The defensive treasure had managed to dispel most of the strength of the wind treasure, but it was damaged because of the wind spear.
Blood started to appear from the hole of the Needle-Edge Porcupine that was created by the wind spear. However, Feng Qi did not look at his wound, but changed the direction of the first wind spear first before pulling the wind spear out of his wound.
After he pulled the wind spear out, it disappeared.
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